Born: 22 February 1892, United States
Died: 19 October 1950
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Nancy Boyd, Edna Vincent Millay
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1892, Feb. 22 Born, Rockland, Maine
1909 Graduated from high school, Camden, Maine
1912 “Renascence,” published in The Lyric Year, One Hundred Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley
1913 Attended Barnard College, New York, N.Y.
1917 Graduated, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Moved to Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y. Published Renascence, and Other Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley
1917-1920 Associated with Provincetown Theatre as actor and playwright. Published poetry in magazines and newspapers
1920 Published A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. New York: Frank Shay. Published Aria da Capo, A Play in One Act. [London]; separate edition published in New York by Mitchell Kennerley, 1921
1921 Published Second April. New York: Mitchell Kennerley. Published Two Slatterns and a King; A Moral Interlude. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co. Published The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts. New York: Harper & Brothers
1921-1923 Wrote for Vanity Fair under pseudonym Nancy Boyd while residing in Paris, France; traveled throughout Europe
1922 Published The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank Shay
1923 Published The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers
1923 Awarded Pulitzer Prize in poetry; first woman to receive the prize. Married Eugen Boissevain (died 1949)
1924 Published Distressing Dialogues under pseudonym Nancy Boyd. New York: Harper & Brothers
1925 Moved to Steepletop farm, Austerlitz, N.Y.
1927 Debut of The King’s Henchmen opera, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, N.Y. Published The King’s Henchmen: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Harper & Brothers. Published Fear in a pamphlet distributed by the Sacco-Vanzetti National League
1928 Published The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers
1929 Published Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems Selected for Young People. New York: Harper & Brothers
1931 Published Fatal Interview, Sonnets. New York: Harper & Brothers
1932 Published The Princess Marries the Page, A Play in One Act. New York: Harper & Brothers
1934 Published Wine from These Grapes. New York: Harper & Brothers
1936 Published with George Dillon Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles Baudelaire. New York: Harper & Brothers
1937 Published Conversation at Midnight. New York: Harper & Brothers
1939 Published Huntsman, What Quarry? New York: Harper & Brothers
1940 Published Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook. New York: Harper & Brothers. Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
1941 Published Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Harper & Brothers
1943 Published Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Harper & Brothers
1950, Oct. 19 Died, Austerlitz, N.Y.
1950 Norma Millay (sister, died 1986) named literary executor of Millay’s estate and inheritor of Steepletop farm
1952 Publication of Letters, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall in cooperation with Norma Millay. New York: Harper
1954 Publication of Mine the Harvest, compiled by Norma Millay. New York: Harper
1959 Publication of Collected Poems, edited by Norma Millay. New York: Harper